Day 80 : Wild and Blue

Being out in the wild, I just can't help photographing the wild flowers. This purple-ish blue gem is all over the back of my grandparents house. I once did a wildflower project for my 7th grade science project. The goal was to find 25 wildflowers, press them and turn them in as a wildflower book. I got overexcited about this project and collected about 65 different flowers, some albino versions, but mostly flowers found in Arlington and Tyler. This was one I had found 9 years ago but the name of it escapes me. I can still name off a good amount of flowers when I see them, but not all from what I had collected in my wildflower project. I still have it, actually and when I was home for Easter I went through it, naming a majority of the flowers before I read the title in my sloppy, 13 year old handwriting.

Day 79 : Springing Spring

Spring is definitely in the air and boy, do I smell it! I also love, by paying attention to where I am walking, I can see it too. This is a fern that may possibly become something else later in the future (I'm not a botanist, forgive me for not having knowledge in everything, only an opinion).

Beautiful. I feel I am going to use this word a lot as I catch up on my project.

Day 78 : Dogwood Flower

Outside my grandparents home in Tyler, Tx is a ton of dogwood trees. While I was visiting I got to playing around with several zoom filters, this being the 10x and I think it did a great job focusing and dropping the background.

Beauty is in the details.

Day 77: Photograph Her Portrait

Lindsay is an incredible sister. We are 14 months apart and ever since my parents brought her home we have shared everything. Even now when I go home, we swap clothes, stories, and so much more. I love her. She's an amazing person to be around and you are lucky if you know her.

Day 76 : Blue

This is one of my baby sister's staple accessories. A blue bow. Visiting Tyler this weekend to see my grandfather and granny, Jaclyn and I walked around the wooded neighborhood taking photos. When you go out to photograph a specific thing, be it birds, or flowers, or rocks, take a moment to look around and see what else there is in the area.

Day 75 : 23 Flavors

"Drink the Dr. Pepper. You know you want to."

Thank you Kirk for being such a good model for me in the studio. For portfolio we were shooting portraits and recreating advertisements. This was one of my favorite portraits of that assignment. Such a goofball.

Day 74 : Literacy Lubbock

This is a shoot I did for a new friend of mine who needed shots for the Literacy Lubbock campaign she is helping out with. I love this photo because it says so much. It's dramatic and inspiring. You only see what is important, a man struggling to understand the book he holds in his hands.

Many of us take reading for granted and we overlook just how difficult some of the things we read are to understand. Anyone recently fill out your medical information on a doctors form? Anyone do their taxes? How long did it take you? Imagine if you couldn't understand the language on those forms. How long would it take you then?

This was shot with one light directly above through a snoot. f 6.3 1/100 ISO 200